Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age.